Sentences with phrase «other bets in»

The other bets in the Growth Fund of America essentially hinge on a continued recovery in the world economy.

Sequoia has one other bet in a first - party mobile game developer through Pocket Gems, which also competes with Kiwi on Android through titles like Tap Paradise Cove.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, Alphabet's core business generated $ 26.1 billion in revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same perioIn the fourth quarter of 2016, Alphabet's core business generated $ 26.1 billion in revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same perioin revenue, far eclipsing the $ 262 million its moonshots (like self - driving cars) and other bets (like home automation company Nest) generated in the same perioin the same period.

Over the past year, Alphabet has trimmed some of the «other bets,» leading some analysts to question the company on whether it was shedding its key talent in the process.

Thompson said gains in other stocks in his portfolio have provided leeway to maintain his bet against Tesla.

Only now, thanks to changes in government policy among other factors, the cast of contending princelings is shifting, causing one big name VC to publicly bet on an less - often - mentioned possibility — Canada.

As the U.S. - based industry awaits that ruling, companies are looking in other countries to hedge their bets on a global, import - export industry.

Startups to watch: It's a big bet in a city that wagers more than any other, but startups like Lucine Biotechnology, which focuses on women's healthcare, and password management app Launch Key improve the odds that Las Vegas will be a successful entrepreneurial hub.

«But what I would bet against in this space, based on this news, is Dunkin' Brands, because it seems to me if you can translate that weak economy to the other places, Dunkin' Brands hasn't executed,» Kelly said.

Betting on other spreads has worked better with refining margins increasing sharply this year, as heavy demand for distillates has boosted those margins by more than 50 % in the last two months.

As Fortune reported in December, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), JP Morgan (JPM), and several other big banks are betting on the blockchain's ledger system.

In the second quarter of this year, that bucket accounted for 99.1 % of Alphabet's $ 21.5 billion in revenue; all the Other Bets, just 0.9 In the second quarter of this year, that bucket accounted for 99.1 % of Alphabet's $ 21.5 billion in revenue; all the Other Bets, just 0.9 in revenue; all the Other Bets, just 0.9 %.

At my client's computer firm, for example, with its layoffs and other struggles, you can bet your salary that there will be more than one cynic in the audience at the CEO's speech.

Vogt is betting he can develop new products for cars and roads as you would for the Web — in other words, perfect a minimally viable product, and then gather data from users to improve the technology.

Porat's team meets regularly with each Other Bets business, walking them through their units» spending and earnings, and urging them to make tradeoffs to bring them in line.

However, not all of Alphabet's ambitious projects make it that far, and what the company calls its «other bets» — anything outside its core advertising business — together accounted for roughly $ 3.6 billion in operating losses last year alone.

The game has enthralled players and boosted investors» view of Nintendo's future, as they bet the group can cash in on a treasure chest of other lucrative cartoon characters, from Donkey Kong to Super Mario.

In other words, only bet what you can afford to lose.

This year's Masters, which generally garners more betting than any other golf tournament on the PGA tour, is estimated to surpass $ 12 million in Nevada, which would be a record.

But a year in, things have been pretty rocky at Alphabet, as several of these Other Bets have shown signs of turmoil.

The other is that customers can only leave margin positions open for a relatively short period of time — 27 days in the case of GDAX — which means those betting on a fall in bitcoin need it to tumble in short order, or else they will have to cover the price increase.

As other coffee chains edge into its lane in popular product areas like cold - brew coffee (see: Peet's, Chick - fil - A, and Le Pain Quotidien), CEO Howard Schultz is betting big on better tech.

All bets are on the table as to whether he will deliver it in some form of another (dragons aren't real, by the way) but the boss of Tesla, SpaceX, and a few other tech companies is no stranger to pulling gags with his witty Twitter posts.

However, there is little doubt in my mind that a board that is diverse — in terms of experience, skills, gender, race, sexual orientation and other factors — is your best possible bet for management and shareholders.

Ackman's $ 20 billion Pershing Square Capital Management made a $ 1 billion short bet against Herbalife in 2012 and has seen the stock price fluctuate as other prominent investors got in and the government began investigating the company.

Vaynerchuk admits that he's «betting on the jockey a lot of times»; in other words, the product itself is less important than the person who pitched it.

But others who've worked with the Pakistanis fear coercion could backfire at a time they're hedging their bets, unsure America will win in Afghanistan.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

In addition to hedging Disney's bets, Iger's comments also serve as a very obvious warning shot across the bow of cable companies and other distributors.

Inc. culled data from a number of sources — betting sites, shipping experts, investors, and people familiar with Amazon, among others — to come up with the following list of top contenders, ranked (more or less) in order of likelihood.

Most other wine stocks are also off their lows as investors sniff a revival and place their bets on better earnings in the year ahead.

East Asia's democracies — India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and others — remain sound investment bets that can help mitigate risks associated with overexposure in China.

With all that going for Guru.com, Gluck decided to bet on the company, joining 19 other angels in a $ 3 - million round of financing that closed last July.

In other words, they are happy to be in Chicago if they have the opportunity to do something amazing, and I think we can all agree that it's a safe bet that Amazon will continue to push the computing envelopIn other words, they are happy to be in Chicago if they have the opportunity to do something amazing, and I think we can all agree that it's a safe bet that Amazon will continue to push the computing envelopin Chicago if they have the opportunity to do something amazing, and I think we can all agree that it's a safe bet that Amazon will continue to push the computing envelope.

Like other packaged food companies, it is betting that staking an early claim in countries with multiplying ranks of middle - class customers will secure its own future.

Before the split, Porat recalls, «research analysts were coming out with their range of estimates as to how big the operating loss would be in «other bets.»

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

At the time of the launch, Facebook told Inc. that Workplace was a big bet for the company, on par in importance with other efforts like Instagram and Oculus.

The unit is lumped in with many projects as parts of the company's «other bets,» which had revenue of $ 185 million and an operating loss of $ 859 million in the second quarter.

The Other Bets businesses posted a combined operating loss of $ 865 million in the third quarter.

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IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, HP Enterprise's Meg Whitman, Cisco's (CSCO) Chuck Robbins and other execs at these companies are betting that we're still very early in the cloud adoption game, and that there is thus time to catch up.

The 10 confirmed «Other Bets» only collectively made $ 185 million in revenue last quarter with $ 859 million in losses.

In 2007, KKR and the other private equity firms were betting on rising natural gas prices.

He was also forced to clean up other messes, including bad bets on U.S. subprime mortgages and structured debt that cost the bank more than $ 10.7 billion in writedowns from 2007 to 2009, the most of any Canadian lender during the financial crisis.

Development advocates in College Park pitched the area early last week as an excellent candidate for Amazon after the governor and others backed Baltimore as Maryland's best bet.

Operating expenses in the fourth quarter of 2015 rose 14 percent to $ 6.6 billion, «primarily driven by R&D expense, particularly affected by expenses resulting from project milestones in Other Bets established several years ago,» Porat said, according to a transcript.

«First of all, right now in the prospectus, the ETF doesn't have the allowance to get any derivative exposure, which Bill Gross has used extensively in his other fund to make some bets because of the liquidity of those contracts.